I can't say if this has been suggested before since my search yielded no results but it occurred to me when I had to trade with a "90+ score" trader a while back. The deal was a pain to finalize and wasted a lot of my time. A deal is all about honesty, things like remote faith in someone's agreement can easily turn shaky. I've seen many threads in the marketplace recently where people with higher Trader Scores ask for shipping a product before payment and that escalates to a strange deal at times.
Anyhow, enough with the prelude, I'd call PakGamers "Safe Trade" a good idea because it helps some causes and because PG's marketplace is booming with quality trades/traders. I would only hope for it to improve thus, the idea is as follows:
- Pakgamers introduces an exclusive premium service called Safe Trade. PakGamers staff (or the PG community) will hand pick certain reputed Traders in locations through out Pakistan who will receive payment and shipment from traders (buyer/seller) essentially acting as mediators. For example Jshak could serve as a mediator who is known and respected in Karachi. (JShak, I used your name as an example only, please remove this if you don't like it).
- The service is not free and costs a certain fee. This can be settled with the help of the community.
- The fee for the service can go to people who are acting as mediators and could also contribute to PakGamers' operational costs e.g. server costs.
- The service is for people who want to trade in remote locations or in matters where reaching the trader is not possible.
- The service does not apply to low cost trades e.g. 1K, 5K etc. The reason being the premium surcharge applied and the service load on the service staff. This limit can also be settled with the help of the community.
- Any members who wish to use the service must provide their NID copies and relevant information to mediators. This may be essential to the concept of Safe Trade and could benefit in making the PG Marketplace better over time.
This method has been used by some traders in the past and it works. The only catch is that mediators have responsibility and they have their own lives to deal with. Thus, it has to be beneficial/motivational to them in some way apart from the money they get for the service.
Your thoughts are welcome.
Anyhow, enough with the prelude, I'd call PakGamers "Safe Trade" a good idea because it helps some causes and because PG's marketplace is booming with quality trades/traders. I would only hope for it to improve thus, the idea is as follows:
- Pakgamers introduces an exclusive premium service called Safe Trade. PakGamers staff (or the PG community) will hand pick certain reputed Traders in locations through out Pakistan who will receive payment and shipment from traders (buyer/seller) essentially acting as mediators. For example Jshak could serve as a mediator who is known and respected in Karachi. (JShak, I used your name as an example only, please remove this if you don't like it).
- The service is not free and costs a certain fee. This can be settled with the help of the community.
- The fee for the service can go to people who are acting as mediators and could also contribute to PakGamers' operational costs e.g. server costs.
- The service is for people who want to trade in remote locations or in matters where reaching the trader is not possible.
- The service does not apply to low cost trades e.g. 1K, 5K etc. The reason being the premium surcharge applied and the service load on the service staff. This limit can also be settled with the help of the community.
- Any members who wish to use the service must provide their NID copies and relevant information to mediators. This may be essential to the concept of Safe Trade and could benefit in making the PG Marketplace better over time.
This method has been used by some traders in the past and it works. The only catch is that mediators have responsibility and they have their own lives to deal with. Thus, it has to be beneficial/motivational to them in some way apart from the money they get for the service.
Your thoughts are welcome.